Quotes About Meaning

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.